List of The Royal Today episodes
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The Royal Today titles
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| Genre | Medical drama |
| Created by | Ken Horn |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 50 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 30 minutes (including adverts) |
| Production company(s) | ITV Productions |
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| Original network | ITV, STV, UTV |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Original release | 7 January – 14 March 2008 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | The Royal, Heartbeat |
| External links | |
| Website | www |
The Royal Today is a British medical soap opera, a spin-off of the similarly themed drama, The Royal. The concept is that whilst The Royal is set in the late 1960s, The Royal Today featured the same hospital in the present day, with a new set of characters working in the same location. Each episode followed the events of a single day, and the show was broadcast daily (except for the weekends), so the series could be said to progress in real time. The first series of 50 half-hour episodes began on 7 January 2008 on the ITV network airing from 4 pm-4.30 pm. Although there were a number of running storylines, the series generally eschewed the use of cliffhangers. The series was axed in March 2008 after poor ratings, on an average of 1.175 million viewers.
Dr Jonathan Ormerod and Dr Sarah Chatwin's first patient of the day is Ella, a young woman in her twenties, who's fainted and been brought to A&E by concerned fiancé Stan. Ormerod and Chatwin are concerned when they discover she's recently undergone breast enhancement surgery in Poland. She wants to be "posh spice perky" in time for her wedding in two weeks time and arranged a cheap cosmetic surgery deal overseas. The doctors suspect she's suffering from a serious staphylococcal infection as a result of the surgery and much to Ella's dismay, Ormerod tells her she has to have the implants removed. Will Ella recover in time for her big day?
Over on Middleditch Ward, Adam and Nurse Heather Dunstan are struggling to tend to their patients and have to deal with unruly nineteen-year-old Keeley whose intoxicated boyfriend can't keep his hands off her. Their day goes from bad to worse when they're informed they've been landed with student nurses Carrie, Lesley and Gemma. Gemma and Carrie, who were looking forward to some hands on experience with the patients, are disappointed when they're assigned to Nurse Pearl who has them preparing the lunch trolley and making beds.
Meanwhile, Lesley is doing the rounds with Heather when they hear raucous noise coming from Keeley's cubicle. It becomes clear Keeley's far from charming family are visiting and have brought vodka onto the ward. Heather and Lesley confront the rowdy party and confiscate the alcohol. Both Keeley's father and her boyfriend Phil are furious. They don't take kindly to being told off and become aggressive towards the nurses. Is this the last they've heard from Keeley's family?
Over in theatre, Consultant Surgeon Woods is operating on Ella. The infection is serious and he wastes no time as her life is under threat. She is more concerned her wedding dress won't fit if her bust size is reduced. The operation is successful, but Surgical Registrar Pamela is frustrated when Woods agrees to let her close the wound, but then takes over himself. Ella has no confidence without her implants and says she wants to have another operation once she's recovered. Will besotted Stan succeed in convincing Ella that looks aren't everything?
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